I was using my iPod Shuffle on a Windows PC to install some stuff on my parent's PC, when it froze and messed up some blocks and clusters. I use OS X and I have tried the Disk Utility and the iPod software updater, but it just hits a bad cluster and stops. Is there anything that I can do to fix...

My computer was running normally but then one day it would not start up. Pushing the power button yielded nothing----, no video, no beeps, nothing! Some trouble shooting showed if the power cord was disconnected and reinserted, pushing the power button yielded a power light and both fans ran for...

Hi guys. I recently have major problems with my 80GB 6Y080L0 Maxtor HDD. Previously they were "drive not ready" and paging/controller errors. Now: 1) When I try to copy files to it, they either disappear or take forever to copy. Once the PC beeped, then slowed down and froze about 2 seconds...

I bought a an enclosure today for a 2.5 travelstar from a now non-functioning laptop. And it was duly put in the enclosure ever so carefully, the LED lights up fine. However when I plug it into the computer XP picks it up for a second and then says there was an error installing immediately after...

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A while back I bought a no-name AMD-based computer from Ebay (Starburst Computer). The machine purportedly was fitted with 1Meg ram, which, indefensibly, I never bothered to check until now. I started having problems with the machine, so I tested both memory chips, found one bad, and put the...

Hi I just setup everything to run 2 monitors for a larger dektop, which I need badly. I am running Win 2000 and have one video card in the VGP slot (monitor 1) and one in the PCI (monitor 2). I setup everything in the display properties as well. The problem is, all I am seeing is a mess on the...

Built a new PC today but everytime I boot it up, blank screen (nothing no BIOS, no signal). I used memory from another PC (two 512MB chips) - no change I removed CPU and fan - no change I removed memory - no change Replaced with CRT monitors - no change Q: What would you do next to find the...

I had a machine with a faulty motherboard so I bought a new one and it came with a part that I don't recognise. It's plastic, black, square and flat, about 3mm thick and 90 x 92mm. It's got a metallic door thingy on it that slides to one side when I push it. On the back it's got a small round...

E machine Desktop T2812 Machine will not boot. Just the monitor gets a message about the signal and says that the monitor is good. Sometime it just beeps a series of long beeps non stop with about a one second break in between beeps. Other times it does not beep at all... When I first tried to...

"Bacchus" wrote in message ... Hi I just setup everything to run 2 monitors for a larger dektop, which I need badly. I am running Win 2000 and have one video card in the VGP slot (monitor 1) and one in the PCI (monitor 2)....

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I started pulling any usable parts out of 4 old computers that were taking up too much space. Only got 2 usable HDs out of ~1hr work. One 2 Gig, one 540 Mb. While clearing out old files from the pre-existing recycle bins on the drives they acted very strange. They seemed to import all the...

I bought one of the cheap Fry's Electronics kits to salvage harddrives from old computers with bad motherboards. My idea was to clean off all the old embarrassing files and use them for rescue disks on my current machines. Some of them work, and some do not fit. An example of one that works is...

Hi, I would like to low level format my fujitsu laptop hard dirve (MHM2200AT) Does anybody know which soft I can use ? Thanks

I've been buying a few machines for friends and family from an auction site. They PCs always come with the winxp pro or home oem sticker on them but no cds. I make a copy of my original xp cd and use that to install it on their machine using the license key on the sticker. It activates every time...

Hi, Does it exist devices with several ethernet input LAN sockets and one output socket which enables me to select by software commands which input port to connect to the output? (Some kind of KVM switch but for ethernet). At least 100 Mbps (CAT5 cable) compatible. Thanks for hints on where I...

My AGP is 9800xt, whats comparable in a PCI-e card?

...and now it's dead. I did manage to make it boot for a while but most of the keyboard was dead. Then the computer shut down.. :-( Any really useful suggestions? cheers